File:Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) - geograph.org.uk - 1359258.jpg
Original file (426 × 640 pixels, file size: 68 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionCommon Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) - geograph.org.uk - 1359258.jpg |
English: Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii). As its name suggests, this is one of our commonest of orchids, and also one of the most widespread, being present throughout the British Isles, except for parts of the far southwest of England, the far north of Scotland and the northern isles where it is patchy in occurrence. Although it is commonest on alkaline and neutral soils, it will tolerate slightly acidic conditions. In more acidic areas it is largely replaced by its close relative the Heath Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata), hence the patchy distribution in the areas mentioned above. It is also happy in a wide range of habitats, such as short grass, areas of longer grass and scrub, woodland, dunes and roadsides. The number of flowers in a particular site can be large.
Also as its name suggests, the leaves are heavily spotted. The flowers are always a shade of pink, but this can range from almost white through to quite a dark shade. This photo, taken on the Burford Spur of Box Hill, shows an example of "typical" mid pink colouring. For a closer view of the flower spike, see 1359262 and for a close up of an individual flower see 1359269. For a near white example see 1359271 and 1359277. |
Date | |
Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | Ian Capper |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | Ian Capper / Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) / |
InfoField | Ian Capper / Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) |
Camera location | 51° 15′ 13″ N, 0° 18′ 59″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.253545; -0.316420 |
---|
Object location | 51° 15′ 13″ N, 0° 18′ 59″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.253562; -0.316390 |
---|
Licensing
[edit]This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Ian Capper and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 07:28, 28 February 2011 | 426 × 640 (68 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) As its name suggests, this is one of our commonest of orchids, and also one of the most widespread, being present throughout the British Isles, except fo |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|
Structured data
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
51°15'12.762"N, 0°18'59.112"W
13 June 2009
51°15'12.823"N, 0°18'59.004"W
image/jpeg
5bff85d894915b8a995a384d0e96c800d66e8d99
69,701 byte
640 pixel
426 pixel
- Information field template with formatting
- Files with coordinates missing SDC location of creation (51° N, 1° W)
- CC-BY-SA-2.0
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC depicts
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC location of creation
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC geograph.org.uk image ID
- Images by Ian Capper